funded by National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program, Grant No. 2009CB421402);the open foundation from Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education,Lanzhou University,and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40975007)
Based on daily data sets of 17 meteorological factors during the period of 1954-2005 for 60 gauge stations distributed over Gansu Province of China and the corresponding dust storm records, the dust storm probabilitie...